The quickly ascending danger levels of One Punch Man have seemingly reached their zenith with the anime’s latest airing, as more formidable heroes are effortlessly dispatched by the show’s most powerful enemy yet; the fearsome foe being deftly eradicated by none other than Saitama’s one punch, possibly making all the drama pointless.

Woah, the editors dropped the ball with this article. Isn't that the whole purpose of this show? Not only that, but rather than the straightforward direction of build-up to climax, OPM delivers an alternative. The purpose of this episode was to express how, danger is relative to strength, and that honor is derived through putting yourself in danger. This is evident through the use of Saitama's speech. While a member of the crowd was calling the heroes useless, Saitama decides to discredit himself to give credit to the fallen. They wanted to assert the idea that Saitama feels he gave less than the other heroes simply because he wasn't in any real danger.

If a billionaire gave you $1000, that's barely worth anything to them. If I gave you $1000, that'd be a true gesture of generosity.

Exactly, Anonymous 19:29. The whole purpose of 'heroics' is that you do what is right even if it does put you into danger and the biggest heroes are the people who do that knowing they might not come out of it alive.

it's mostly the novelty that attracts people,
what i meant is that we rarely have a MC who is that powerful right from the start~ it's hard to consider this shonen (since the definition of shonen implies a weak MC getting stronger litttle by little from training*** the typical shonen genre) this kind of novelty can become a new genre~ maybe

while i agree with everything you said, i think it's good to note that "shounen" simply means "young boy".
so as a genre, it is catered for "young boys~teenager". not saying everyone else have no right to read it.

How you not get a gif of the whole street being cleared of water when he punches! Amazing. Well the whole anti-climax notion is part of the episode. Everyone starts disbelieving the battle was hard because with him being so powerful. He makes it look like others are weaklings. So in counter he promotes the idea of it all being a trick by him-- taking credit for all the other heroes battle. Which keeps people cheering for the fallen heroes rather then dismissing them

This anime is stupid. Not because of the concept (it's totally awesome) but because Saitama could become a god among men, stop all world conflicts and build the ultimate society. Instead he live in cramped appartment, goes shopping, make a fool of himself and generally waste his strength.

He could build the "ultimate society" but it would only because people fear his power and do what he said even if he tell people to do the right things. The true ultimate society that I think you ,may want is a society which every one (or almost everyone) do the right things, being kind and sympathetic to each other because of their own will but not because of fear. Otherwise... it would be the same society that we are living in right now.

he can control the strength of the punches to a degree. he can use nonlethal punches on people like snek and sonic, and he's got his normal punches for people like the Sea King.

he's got a serious series of moves that'll show up in 3-4 episodes, but even that's him holding back. going all out, he could probably punch out the moon or even the earth if he really wanted to. he just doesn't have an upwards cap of how strong he can punch (much to his dismay)